# Android/iOS - different appearances

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/android-ios-different-appearances/1477126>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [August 30, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/android-ios-different-appearances/1477126 "2021-08-30T12:57:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![slothball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@slothball](https://community.thunkable.com/u/slothball)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/android-ios-different-appearances/1477126/1 "2021-08-30T12:57:14Z")

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Hi everyone

I am almost finished with my app. I have been working with the traditional interface for making the app and testing it using Thunkable Live and an iPhone. I have now tested it on various Apple devices, and everything works fine. Hooray!

I have now just tried to run the app on an Android device (Samsung Galaxy S10) and there are a couple of visual differences, mainly to do with text:

- Most obviously, the default font is a serif font, rather than a sans serif font. It looks ugly. Do I have to change every single text box to correct this? What about buttons where I cannot change the font? Am I stuck with a serif font for those buttons? This is going to adversely affect the look of the app.

- For some reason, the left padding inside text entry boxes is ignored on Android, but works fine on iOS. Am I doing something wrong here? Is there a fix?

- A few white dots here and there (I think this might be to do with elements that have been made invisible?)

Differences can be seen by comparing these two pictures:

 ![IMG_3549](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/8/1/8145ebda2119a3f9e97cfdbdf02c9831bb3eb758.jpeg)

 ![f26bcb59-9e90-4ee7-9586-b277ad82458b](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/d/4/d4b419e2f5e3b527c8f8bec8fc98550e37a6b827.jpeg)

Would you recommend I have a different project for the Android and iOS versions?

Sorry for all the questions - hopefully I can work through these glitches and would really appreciate if anyone has had any similar experiences or can offer some tips.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![gregsemailhelper209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ee7513/32.png) [@gregsemailhelper209](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gregsemailhelper209)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/android-ios-different-appearances/1477126/2 "2023-07-12T15:29:39Z")

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Did you ever figure out how to do global changes to the font? thx

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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/android-ios-different-appearances/1477126/3 "2024-11-08T13:17:03Z")

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